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Modern cars often come with white marker lights or daytime running lights that are on all the time, as a supplement to the primary headlights. The problem is that in …read more Continue reading A 555 Can Even Make Your Car Indicator More Visible
Hackers love random numbers, or more accurately, the pursuit of them. It turns out that computers are so good at following our exacting instructions that they are largely incapable of …read more Continue reading Random Number Generator is a Blast from the Past
The early bird may get the worm, but [Stephen Chasey’s] birds only get to eat if they are smart. He’s created a vending machine for bird feeding. While this is …read more Continue reading This Vending Machine is for the Birds
Making an electronic clock is pretty easy here in 2023, with a microcontroller capable of delivering as many quartz-disciplined pulses as you’d like available for pennies. But how did engineers …read more Continue reading A Clock Timebase, No Microcontroller
There are plenty of designs out there for sawtooth and triangle function generators, many of them using the humble 555 IC. Few are readily voltage controlled, making them difficult to …read more Continue reading Weird 555 Function Generator Uses Feedback
Have you tried your hand at circuit sculpture yet? Well, if you were waiting for the ideal first project with a great build video to go along with it, keep …read more Continue reading Test Your Capacity for Circuit Sculpture with Flashing Lights
We spotted [Segfault]’s new tattoo on a fast failing bird app a few days ago. We thought it was nice looking piece of skin art, but without a write up …read more Continue reading I See By Your Tattoo That You Are A Hacker
Audio synthesizers can range from vast racks of equipment with modules stitched together by a web of patch cords to a couple of 555s wired together in an Atari punk …read more Continue reading This Simple Light-Controlled Synth Has a Surprisingly Rich Sound
When asked to whip up a simple egg timer, most of us could probably come up with a quick design based on the ubiquitous 555 timer. Add a couple of …read more Continue reading Should’ve Used a 555 — Or 276 of Them
For the electronic badge enthusiast, these last two years have seen something of a famine. While the pandemic may not be over yet, we’re learning to live with it in …read more Continue reading The 555 Gives the CarolinaCon Badge Life